Using the GNU Privacy Guard: Helper Tools

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## 7 Helper Tools

GnuPG comes with a couple of smaller tools:

• watchgnupg: |  | Read logs from a socket.
• gpgv: |  | Verify OpenPGP signatures.
• addgnupghome: |  | Create .gnupg home directories.
• gpgconf: |  | Modify .gnupg home directories.
• applygnupgdefaults: |  | Run gpgconf for all users.
• gpgsm-gencert.sh: |  | Generate an X.509 certificate request.
• gpg-preset-passphrase: |  | Put a passphrase into the cache.
• gpg-connect-agent: |  | Communicate with a running agent.
• gpgparsemail: |  | Parse a mail message into an annotated format
• symcryptrun: |  | Call a simple symmetric encryption tool.
• gpg-zip: |  | Encrypt or sign files into an archive.